I have no anointed candidate for Gombe—Senator Goje

Former governor of Gombe State, Senator Mohammed Danjuma Goje has Denied insinuation of  a plot  to impose his anointed candidate as the All Progressives Congress, (APC) standard  bearer in the 2019 governorship election in the state.

The senator representing Gombe Central in the upper legislative Chamber made the clarification yesterday shortly after the inauguration of the newly constituted four man committee to run the affairs of the party in Gombe State.

The former governor assured the national working  committee of the party  that he was ready to work  with the Honourable  Idi Barde Gubana led caretaker committee towards making APC a formidable platform ahead of 2019.

He said:  “Danjuma Goje has no governorship candidate he wants to install in Gombe. The ultimate aim is to have an APC governor in Gombe state, come 2019.“ Justifying the composition of a new caretaker committee for the State, Deputy National Chairman (North), Senator  Lawal Shuaibu expressed regret over what he called irreconcilable  differences among members of the previous Caretaker Working Committee.

‘’We have had a lot of challenges running the Party in Gombe state, challenges which I narrated when we inaugurated the first caretaker committee. We got to a stage where a consensus was reached as to how we can move the Party in Gombe state forward. ‘’Arising from that, we constituted a caretaker committee. The caretaker committee did a wonderful job, but along the line we observed some irreconcilable differences among the members.

“Observing that there was no way they could reconcile themselves, their personal differences, for that reason and only that reason we decided to ask them to step aside and we are today inaugurating a newly reconstituted caretaker committee.

“The caretaker committee basically is not there to do any other thing except what the National headquarter has asked them to do on the basis of resolutions reached with the stakeholders of Gombe during its meeting with the National Working Committee (NWC). Any other thing should be left for the NWC to handle. We can handle every challenge if we have the cooperation of the stakeholders. The newly constituted caretaker committee have a mission, a mandate and they are only expected to discharge their mandate not any other thing.”

In his acceptance remarks on behalf of  his team, the Caretaker Chairman, Honourable  Idi Barde Gubana promised to work strictly in line with the terms of reference provided by the APC NWC. Gubana further  called for the support of stakeholders in the Gombe state  political force in the lead up to the 2019 general elections.

“I plead with APC elders in Gombe state to come together let us solve this problem. Let us have one APC in Gombe state. Let us ensure that Gubana said.Other members of the caretaker committee are  Alhaji  Sani Haruna (State Dep. Chairman); Bello Kasimu Maigari (State Secretary) and Barr. A.B. Lusa (State Legal Adviser). The caretaker function will serve  for an initial renewable period of three  months.